Post by krunchykat on Jun 30, 2013 20:17:24 GMT -5

Wow where was I for all this craziness? I thought this was one of the tamest most non-weirdo-filled Roo yet. Just from my perspective.

I have to agree. I still saw a lot of weird/crazy/funny stuff but not on the level of prior years. There was also much less conversation with strangers. Everyone seemed like they could care less about talking with anyone other than who they came with.

Post by gardenfresh on Jun 30, 2013 20:34:27 GMT -5

Wow where was I for all this craziness? I thought this was one of the tamest most non-weirdo-filled Roo yet. Just from my perspective.

I have to agree. I still saw a lot of weird/crazy/funny stuff but not on the level of prior years. There was also much less conversation with strangers. Everyone seemed like they could care less about talking with anyone other than who they came with.

I was also picking up that vibe, that people would not get out of their bubble and socialize. I mean, for god's sake-- It's Bonnaroo!!!!

Someone on Reddit said they were upset that they couldn't see weird Al... here's the conversation:

Them: I wanted to see [Weird Al] but nobody in my group would go Me: That's when you ditch your group. It's just one show. The 10,000 of us there would have loved to have you Them: Well it's not really just one show when you don't have a cell phone. Its so hard to set up a meeting place with so many people around. You separate without a phone and you probably aren't seeing your friends again until you get back to the tent...although there were some times where we got separated and almost magically found each other like 25 minutes later"

That to me is insanely crazy. C'mon people. Step outside of your comfort zone, please. God forbid you separate from your group for a few hours. It's not like you see them the rest of the year anyways.

Someone on Reddit said they were upset that they couldn't see weird Al... here's the conversation:

Them: I wanted to see [Weird Al] but nobody in my group would go Me: That's when you ditch your group. It's just one show. The 10,000 of us there would have loved to have you Them: Well it's not really just one show when you don't have a cell phone. Its so hard to set up a meeting place with so many people around. You separate without a phone and you probably aren't seeing your friends again until you get back to the tent...although there were some times where we got separated and almost magically found each other like 25 minutes later"

That to me is insanely crazy. C'mon people. Step outside of your comfort zone, please. God forbid you separate from your group for a few hours. It's not like you see them the rest of the year anyways.

Keep in mind, most people of reddit are afraid to be social. That said, I left my group on Thursday and didn't see them till I got back to the tent at night. I met so many people. One of my greatest days. Then on Saturday I left them at JJ to head to the Superjam on my own. I personally feel that if you don't go off on your own at least once, you're not doing Bonnaroo right. Also, we always had the "ok at this time meet under the bobble heads" never had any problem meeting up with each other doing that.

Post by adrenalinetruth on Jul 1, 2013 16:40:31 GMT -5

Craziest moment for me: definitely the moment where I pushed as far into the crowd at ASAP Rocky as humanly possible, but somehow two young girls (no older than 18) push their way in front of me and discover the same fate... the only difference is that this pair of ladies happen to be topless. At this point oogling from all angles ensues, and as one of them mounts a nearby stranger to get on his shoulders, ASAP says "shouts out to all the topless women, especially you in the back" motioning to this girl. Her and her friend go crazy and any time he mentions topless women and I am the fortunate beneficiary of plenty of jiggling. Very awesome, because then ASAP called all the topless women on stage... I wish I had better pics!

Second best moment: Action Bronson rushes right past me in the crowd, grabs someone's bucket of cheesy poofs and digs right in. It was awesome.

Post by uvajed on Jul 3, 2013 0:07:57 GMT -5

Crazy: Guy passed out on Thursday just after Centeroo opened, about 100 feet inside going toward That. My selfish thought was "I'm going to have to talk to a Safety dude ALREADY?" Then a Safety guy walked in front of me and started trying to assess the dude before I had to deal with him. At least wait until Friday to pass out by yourself where my conscience will force me to tend to you, m'kay?

Debbie-Downer moment: Seeing somebody who was halfway loaded into a medical chopper being frantically worked on by medical folks who appeared very concerned, to put it mildly. Saw the same chopper in the air a few minutes later.

Funny: Action Bronson. I only went to his show because I had a little time to kill, and I'm glad I did since he was hilarious walking all around the crowd meeting people and smoking smokables. Really fun to watch.

Also kinda funny: Saw a Safety staff guy lose a bunch of stuff out of cart when he took off too fast. Funnier: He hit the brakes immediately and a pickup went by, running over what may have been a phone.

Another thing that made me snicker: The loud, bitchy girl from Miami camped next to me telling her friends I was weird for putting my tent under a canopy and hanging a tapestry on the East side. I had previously tried to offer her some of my space for her group and use of my other E-Z up, which she rudely declined while whining about the small space they were given. The guilty satisfaction came on Saturday when I overheard her whining about water in her tent and not being able to sleep late enough because it was too hot. I stayed dry and slept past 11 one day.

Kinda funny: Seeing R Kelly way the hell above Which. Glad he didn't decide to go all R Kelly and pisz on some beetches, cause there's no telling how far that would have carried on the beautiful summer TN breeze.

One tidbit of awesomeness: Realizing that I was singing Hey Jude to the chap who wrote the song. Never imagined that would happen. Pure awesome. Mom was right that seeing him (and his bandmates, of course) was guaranteed to be a good time.

Main theme of my Roo 2013: Even if I go by myself, get stuck in BFE, and get robbed of all my Centeroo money by the Columbus, OH police on the way down, I never know what amazing things I'm going to see, and Bonnaroo is awesome.

Post by Grizzly with a Sword on Jul 3, 2013 0:32:32 GMT -5

Seriously though, Crazy moment had to be coming back to the rv only to see a flipped over festi-taxi in the middle of our rv group.

Also honorable mention would go to a girl who was on something come up to our group and ask if we could take care of her since she lost her friend. We helped her out to call her friend right before FJM and get her some water. She ran off afterwards still in another world. The next day we ran into her at Wu-tang in perfect health and she thanked us all for helping out. Bonnaroo help and friendliness, is not a myth.

Post by nthingtolose on Jul 3, 2013 6:44:41 GMT -5

Crazy: Guy passed out on Thursday just after Centeroo opened, about 100 feet inside going toward That. My selfish thought was "I'm going to have to talk to a Safety dude ALREADY?" Then a Safety guy walked in front of me and started trying to assess the dude before I had to deal with him. At least wait until Friday to pass out by yourself where my conscience will force me to tend to you, m'kay?

Debbie-Downer moment: Seeing somebody who was halfway loaded into a medical chopper being frantically worked on by medical folks who appeared very concerned, to put it mildly. Saw the same chopper in the air a few minutes later.

Funny: Action Bronson. I only went to his show because I had a little time to kill, and I'm glad I did since he was hilarious walking all around the crowd meeting people and smoking smokables. Really fun to watch.

Also kinda funny: Saw a Safety staff guy lose a bunch of stuff out of cart when he took off too fast. Funnier: He hit the brakes immediately and a pickup went by, running over what may have been a phone.

Another thing that made me snicker: The loud, biznatchy girl from Miami camped next to me telling her friends I was weird for putting my tent under a canopy and hanging a tapestry on the East side. I had previously tried to offer her some of my space for her group and use of my other E-Z up, which she rudely declined while whining about the small space they were given. The guilty satisfaction came on Saturday when I overheard her whining about water in her tent and not being able to sleep late enough because it was too hot. I stayed dry and slept past 11 one day.

Kinda funny: Seeing R Kelly way the hell above Which. Glad he didn't decide to go all R Kelly and pisz on some beetches, cause there's no telling how far that would have carried on the beautiful summer TN breeze.

One tidbit of awesomeness: Realizing that I was singing Hey Jude to the chap who wrote the song. Never imagined that would happen. Pure awesome. Mom was right that seeing him (and his bandmates, of course) was guaranteed to be a good time.

Main theme of my Roo 2013: Even if I go by myself, get stuck in BFE, and get robbed of all my Centeroo money by the Columbus, OH police on the way down, I never know what amazing things I'm going to see, and Bonnaroo is awesome.

Can you extrapolate this story? This seems like a crazy Roo story right here.

Post by chicken4 on Jul 3, 2013 9:05:15 GMT -5

Did anyone else see the girl with the GIGANTIC HOLE in the side of her body???

I'm talking, open, bloody, untreated impalement wound open to the elements. She would spritz it off with water as she walked, as if some how the sulfuric 'roo water would keep her from getting mrsa and dying within the week

Saw this at The National. it was so disturbing and you bringing it up again almost made me throw up on my work computer. Why wouldn't you cover something like that up. ASkjflsajf;a. God i'm so grossed out now.

My crazy story:

Friend of mine is black, literally only listens to rap, and some R&B. So this was going to be an experience. Hates camping and everything. He absolutely loved it. Friday he took a "trip" and fell in love with so much music, he wandered around alone for a while, and turned in to a Groovy version of himself. Was non stop dancing, said he spent like 3-4 hours in the silent disco (total for the weekend he was probably there for like 8-10 hours). Then we meet up with him at Sir Paul. Again i'd like to stress he ONLY listens to rap. He had heard of the beatles, heard of Paul, but never ever listen to him. My black friend fell in love with a 71 year old white british man. It was hilarious. The entire time his mind was getting blown. He kept saying stuff like "This guy, this guy is a treasure. We should put him in a museum or something". When Paul told the story of Jimi Hendrix asking Clapton to tune his guitar my friends response was "DUDE, HE KNEW THESE GUYS!!! WHAT THE HELL!!" Then Paul pulls out the ukelele, friend goes "OH MY GOD HE PLAYS THE UKE TOO!!! I'M PIRATING ALL THIS MANS MUSIC WHEN I GET HOME" From then on we started calling him Groovy Jerm.

After we left centeroo that night he was dancing all the way back to Groop Camping. It was great.

Hmm other crazy stories.... Didn't really see any people fully naked and tripping. Saw Cloney, that was pretty crazy.

Also met Eric Andre leaving the Dirty Projectors. Sad thing is none of my friends watch his show or know who he is, so i can't even name drop that i saw and met a comedian.

Post by cgebert on Jul 3, 2013 16:49:46 GMT -5

Craziest moment for me: definitely the moment where I pushed as far into the crowd at ASAP Rocky as humanly possible, but somehow two young girls (no older than 18) push their way in front of me and discover the same fate... the only difference is that this pair of ladies happen to be topless. At this point oogling from all angles ensues, and as one of them mounts a nearby stranger to get on his shoulders, ASAP says "shouts out to all the topless women, especially you in the back" motioning to this girl. Her and her friend go crazy and any time he mentions topless women and I am the fortunate beneficiary of plenty of jiggling. Very awesome, because then ASAP called all the topless women on stage... I wish I had better pics!

Second best moment: Action Bronson rushes right past me in the crowd, grabs someone's bucket of cheesy poofs and digs right in. It was awesome.

So you were one of the assholes that made leaving Tame Impala impossible. Thanks!

Post by pondo ROCKS on Jul 13, 2013 1:30:31 GMT -5

Wow where was I for all this craziness? I thought this was one of the tamest most non-weirdo-filled Roo yet. Just from my perspective.

Weirdest encounter I had would be this racist lady that was annoying me and several other people as we were waiting for the gates to open Thursday outside the Access entrance to Centeroo.

I had a t-shirt on my head and it draped around my neck and back, secured in place by a baseball cap. In addition to that, I had a bandanna covering my face and neck, and sunglasses. This lady turns to me and asks creepily "HOW LONG YA BEEN HERE?!?!?!".... I assume she's asking me how long I've been waiting for the gates to open, so I respond "about an hour."

She then clarifies: "NO! HOW LONG YA BEEEN HEEERRRREEEEE. YA CRAZY JIHAD!!! WHAT ARE YOU WEARING"... Now I understood she was asking how long I've been in the country....

I responded "ummmm.... it keeps my neck out of the sun." She then said "Oh, nevermind" and went to bother someone else.

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Post by bejeezus on Jul 13, 2013 22:19:18 GMT -5

Friend of mine is black, literally only listens to rap, and some R&B. So this was going to be an experience. Hates camping and everything. He absolutely loved it. Friday he took a "trip" and fell in love with so much music, he wandered around alone for a while, and turned in to a Groovy version of himself. Was non stop dancing, said he spent like 3-4 hours in the silent disco (total for the weekend he was probably there for like 8-10 hours). Then we meet up with him at Sir Paul. Again i'd like to stress he ONLY listens to rap. He had heard of the beatles, heard of Paul, but never ever listen to him. My black friend fell in love with a 71 year old white british man. It was hilarious. The entire time his mind was getting blown. He kept saying stuff like "This guy, this guy is a treasure. We should put him in a museum or something". When Paul told the story of Jimi Hendrix asking Clapton to tune his guitar my friends response was "DUDE, HE KNEW THESE GUYS!!! WHAT THE HELL!!" Then Paul pulls out the ukelele, friend goes "OH MY GOD HE PLAYS THE UKE TOO!!! I'M PIRATING ALL THIS MANS MUSIC WHEN I GET HOME" From then on we started calling him Groovy Jerm.

After we left centeroo that night he was dancing all the way back to Groop Camping. It was great.

This story just made me smile so big. Fricken Bonnaroo, man.

I wish I could remember all the little weird things we saw, but one that stands out is while waiting for Edward Sharpe there was a man walking through the crowd, yelling to everyone that two states had used the power of their vote to legalize mj & that we all needed to keep working to legalize it everywhere. Even better, we were pretty sure he was there last year (my friends had seen him yelling similar things at people headed back to camp one night). Dude would announce his message to everyone nearby, then walk away to announce it to other people... worked his way all the way up to the front & then along the pit & then back through the crowd.

2nd year at 'Roo & I've never actually witnessed a fight (or any violence)... hope it stays that way <3

Post by warpedfan11 on Jul 14, 2013 1:07:59 GMT -5

Friend of mine is black, literally only listens to rap, and some R&B. So this was going to be an experience. Hates camping and everything. He absolutely loved it. Friday he took a "trip" and fell in love with so much music, he wandered around alone for a while, and turned in to a Groovy version of himself. Was non stop dancing, said he spent like 3-4 hours in the silent disco (total for the weekend he was probably there for like 8-10 hours). Then we meet up with him at Sir Paul. Again i'd like to stress he ONLY listens to rap. He had heard of the beatles, heard of Paul, but never ever listen to him. My black friend fell in love with a 71 year old white british man. It was hilarious. The entire time his mind was getting blown. He kept saying stuff like "This guy, this guy is a treasure. We should put him in a museum or something". When Paul told the story of Jimi Hendrix asking Clapton to tune his guitar my friends response was "DUDE, HE KNEW THESE GUYS!!! WHAT THE HELL!!" Then Paul pulls out the ukelele, friend goes "OH MY GOD HE PLAYS THE UKE TOO!!! I'M PIRATING ALL THIS MANS MUSIC WHEN I GET HOME" From then on we started calling him Groovy Jerm.

After we left centeroo that night he was dancing all the way back to Groop Camping. It was great.

This story just made me smile so big. Fricken Bonnaroo, man.

I wish I could remember all the little weird things we saw, but one that stands out is while waiting for Edward Sharpe there was a man walking through the crowd, yelling to everyone that two states had used the power of their vote to legalize mj & that we all needed to keep working to legalize it everywhere. Even better, we were pretty sure he was there last year (my friends had seen him yelling similar things at people headed back to camp one night). Dude would announce his message to everyone nearby, then walk away to announce it to other people... worked his way all the way up to the front & then along the pit & then back through the crowd.

2nd year at 'Roo & I've never actually witnessed a fight (or any violence)... hope it stays that way <3

Same here, second year..the closest thing I saw to violence was in the crowd during Foals there was this suuuuuuuper hyped up (on something, perhaps?) big, sweaty man who was all moshing around like wild...he would go up to me and other people and yell "macho mannnnn!" in your face and then proceed to thrash around and run off into the distance.

Post by lucidity on Oct 20, 2013 15:36:27 GMT -5

Just before R. Kelly got underway there was totally messed up dude with his pants pulled down to his ankles and humping the ground. People pretty much cleared a big circle away from him and were taking photos but he was totally oblivious to everything around him. It was definitely odd and rather creepy too then unfortunately turned sad when some other guys started agitating him and he in turn lashed out. It happily wasn't long after that that security arrived and wrestled him into submission and then hauled him away before things could get too far out of hand.

I think I saw this guy. We walked up to the huge circle of people and there was a pantsless guy being held down by another guy and we thought they were getting it on, but then the guy holding him down got up and started kicking him in the head. Everyone had their phones out taking pictures and videos so my friend mike decided to try and break it up, all the while one of our friends just kept screaming "MICHAEL MICHAEL MICHAEL! YOURE GONNA BE ON VIDEO WITH A MAN WITH HIS JUNK OUT." Extremely sad, but a little funny because of her comments. I hope that guy was ok.

Post by iancrabb on Nov 28, 2013 13:52:45 GMT -5

Oh man where do I begin...

During Tom Petty @ Bonnaroo 2013, I saw these people at the same time all within 20 feet of where I was standing:

1. Young couple having sex with a blanket wrapped around them at my 2 o' clock.2. Old man (70-80) tripping his balls of walking around making loud mumbling noises at my 12.3. Another young couple at my 6 o' clock, the girls shirt was unbuttoned with no undershirt, and her boyfriend's hand in her pants, she was digging that.4. Two, short, young girls holding "Caution Pandamonium" signs (yellow sign with a panda bear holding two guns). These girls went from tears of joy, laughter, and sniffing "something" that one girl pulled out of the other girls tutu (they were both wearing tutus) within 2 minutes.5. A woman in cowgirl position with her man at my 9 o' clock.6. A beautiful Venezuelan girl (I think her name was Vivanja) next to me the whole show. She is from ATL and she is the reason I am posting this. She is a great friend and I wish to reconnect with her.

After Tom Petty she came back to our campsite, we had the pink floyd flag with the album art painted on naked girls backs, and a green KCCO flag (CHIVE ON). She got in out car and we barley spoke because we were all....in another universe....

Post by comcgee89 on Dec 1, 2013 1:40:10 GMT -5

I'm just going to list stuff off. I do agree with others that this was probably the least insane of the 3 I've been to:

1) My little group was experiencing Saturday on the highest level of consciousness, if you catch my drift. We were watching Portugal the Man's set and coming up. Things were going great when out of the side of my periph, I watch this guy jump in the air and try to catch a frisbee. He lands hard and his ankle just snaps. I really wanted to respond but knew I couldn't really help. Oddly enough, this one kid from around my camp who I saw like 10 times in random places was the first to help. Then this old guy with one leg gave the guy his wheelchair and they wheeled him off to the Med Camp. I was losing my mind during all of this.

On Saturday, I probably saw half of all of the acts performing, for 5 minutes at a time. My favorite was probably William Tyler. God damn that dude is amazing at guitar, I was certain I was watching a folk wizard on stage.

I also at one point walked past a grown man wearing a diaper crying. I'm not sure if he was playing around.

2) My sister's friends were coming from a different part of the country (I'm originally from NY but now live in Florida). They had been storing some green stuff in their car and got pulled over by the Tennessee police not too far out from the campgrounds. They had druq dogs sniff out their car and everything. Luckily for them, the dogs didn't smell anything and they got away scot-free. Their first Roo, too, must have been so nerve wracking.

3) Since Diiv wasn't there the first day like they were scheduled, I went to 21 Pilots. Not really a fan of their music but they definitely bring it live. Their lead guy climbing the side of the stage was definitely nuts. I did get my Diiv on later in the week when they filled in for Earl Sweatshirt. They introduced themselves as the Earl Sweatshirts. I laughed.

4) I was looking forward to Tame Impala for the entire weekend. Thinking ahead, I made sure to get myself a spot right against the barrier on the side of the stage. You get more space there, volunteers give you unlimited water, etc. I love that spot. Anyway, you also get right next to the VIP section. David Cross showed up and watched Tame Impala's entire set with Amber Tamblyn. He was definitely tripping balls and I had to restrain myself from yelling something about Tobias Funke at him.

5) I saw a guy at Grizzly Bear, who was probably rolling, dancing like he was at an EDM concert. It was pretty funny.

6) This year at Bonnaroo I had my worst and best toilet experiences of my Roo career. The bad one (on that psychedelic Saturday) was pretty much exactly like Frank on It's Always Sunny, when he got locked in the McPoyle's camper. I wasn't locked in but I could have sworn it was 130 degrees in there. The best one is hard to describe. At Roo, if you're smart, you time your pooping for the night time, when the Port-a-potties are cooled down. I had got there just after the cleaned them so it was like they had been unused, and it was a cool 70 degrees inside. I kid you not, as soon as I closed the bathroom door, someone with a DJ set-up around my camp started playing music. It timed perfectly and put me under the assumption that someone put a music speaker inside my stall. It was about as good as you can get at Roo for using the bathroom.

7) One of the days, every single person's car in a row had their battery die. I'm not sure how that happened but some of the more helpful campers helped everyone charge up their stuff before the shows for that day started.

Post by staceydaile on Jan 22, 2015 17:20:22 GMT -5

Hey inforoosters,I'm the guy responsible for the bounce house during PorterRobinson, and just thought I'd respond with some details and pics.

First the full story....

We had met a guy (whose identity I'm gonna protect, so we'll call him George), who implied that he worked for Roo transporting people in golf carts back and forth from roo to camp sites. When he heard we were trying to sneak in a generator and bounce house he immediately offered to use his 'staff' access to hide the equipment in his golf cart and sneak it in. He came to our camp site, we loaded the equipment, and sure enough... the golf cart breaks down! Most people would give up at this point, but not me or his group of roosters. We literally pushed the golf cart from Group Camping to the staff entrance, through security (while one of his buddies ran up and distracted the security guard with details of how the cart broke down), and into the back of the PorterRobinson tent. From there it was just a matter of dragging the equipment into the crowd, pulling the cord, and not chickening out!

As the OP mentioned, we lasted fully inflated for about 30 minutes, and yeah, it got pretty chaotic a few times. WAY to many people jumping the walls to get into the bounce house. Eventually a security guard came over, pulled the power cord, and told us to pack it up. We knew this was gonna happen and decided to just follow the orders and come back and do it again the next night during RKelly. However.... this is not the end of the crazy story.

About 10 minutes later, as were waiting for another golf cart to come pick us and the equipment up, we got surrounded by about 30 security guards and a guy that looked like Chuck Norris and was only referred to as.."the man who controls your Roo Fate". It turned out that our new buddy 'George', did NOT work for Roo in any way whatsoever. A matter of fact, about 60 seconds before security showed up he had just informed us that not only does he not work for roo, but that him and his group had fake wrist bands, make fake staff id's, and fake golf cart staff passes, and then just drive right into centeroo via the golf cart staff entrance!

Needless to say Chuck Norris man was not very happy at all. Luckily, they owned up to our group not knowing anything about that. I'm not sure what happened to Georges friends, but I do know they had to get two golf carts out of the impound yesterday. I was just kicked out for the night and had to hand carry all the equipment out of roo (thankfully I had some friends who saw this go down and helped lug it all out).

In the end... no real penalty or harm done, and it turned out to be an awesome Roo story to add to the collection. I loved everyone's excitement when the bounce house fully inflated for the first time. Definitely one of my favorite stunts. YAY BONAROOOOOOOOOOOO!

P.S. To any Roo staff....I'm truly sorry for my irresponsible and immature actions, and promise to never bring a bounce house into centeroo again. I'll come up with something way better by next year